Paideia Today
Paideia Today is a podcast in which Dr. Scott Masson and Dr. Bill Friesen, professors of English, discuss the great works of western literature. We do so from a now largely lost classical perspective, attempting to illustrate why 2800 years of the greatest thinkers valued these works above all others as keys to understanding the human condition.Podcasts
Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Twelve, William Faulkner
Published: Nov. 29, 2021, 4:38 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 28 seconds
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Paidiea Today, Season Four, Episode Eleven, Samuel Beckett
Published: Nov. 2, 2021, 3:09 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 56 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Ten, J.R.R. Tolkien
Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 2:44 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 29 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Nine, Kafka
Published: Oct. 18, 2021, 9:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 53 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Eight, Flannery O'Connor
Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 7:51 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 8 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Seven, George Orwell
Published: Oct. 4, 2021, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 5 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Six, W.B. Yeats
Published: Sept. 27, 2021, 10:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 51 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Five, W.H. Auden
Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 1:44 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 34 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Four, T.S. Eliot
Published: May 26, 2021, 3:02 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 29 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Three, Conrad
Published: May 17, 2021, 2:17 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 55 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Two, Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman
Published: May 10, 2021, 8:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 28 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode One, Wilde
Published: May 3, 2021, 6:06 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 37 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episdoe Fourteen, Tolstoy
Published: April 26, 2021, 11:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 11 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Thirteen, Dostoevsky
Published: April 19, 2021, 9:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 53 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Twelve, Tennyson
Published: April 13, 2021, midnightDuration: 1 hour 8 minutes 54 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Eleven, Mary Shelly
Published: March 30, 2021, 12:11 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 58 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Ten, Jane Austen
Published: March 22, 2021, 11:17 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 18 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Nine, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Published: March 16, 2021, 12:20 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 48 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Eight, William Wordsworth
Published: March 8, 2021, 7:49 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Seven, Samuel Johnson
Published: March 2, 2021, 7:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Six, Jonathan Swift
Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 17 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Five, Milton
Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 4:34 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 15 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Four, Milton
Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 7:06 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 30 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Three, Milton
Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 6:29 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 38 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Two, Milton
Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 24 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode One, Milton
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 6:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 48 seconds
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Paidiea Today: Season Two, Episode Ten, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight III
Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 6:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 7 seconds
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Paideia Today: Season Two, Episode Eleven, Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale"
Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 6:47 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 41 seconds
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Paideia Today, Season Two, Episode Seventeen, George Herbert
Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 4:19 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 41 seconds
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Paidiea Today, Season Two, Episode Sixteen, John Donne
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 7:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 23 seconds
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Paidiea Today, Season Two, Episode Fifteen, The Cavalier Poets
Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 6:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 53 seconds
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Paidiea Today, Season Two, Episode Fourteen, Shakespeare's Sonnets
Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 6:21 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 9 seconds
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Paidiea Today, Season Two, Episode Thirteen, Shakespeare, Hamlet II
Published: Dec. 7, 2020, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 5 seconds
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Paidiea Today, Season Two, Episode Twelve, Shakespeare's Hamlet
Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 4:24 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 14 seconds
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Paidiea Today: Season Two, Episode Nine - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 10:36 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 32 seconds
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Paideia Today: Season Two, Episode Eight - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I
Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 4:12 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 13 seconds
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Paideia Today: Season Two, Episode Seven - Dante II
Published: May 18, 2020, 9:18 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds
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Paideia Today: Season Two, Episode Six, Dante I
Published: May 11, 2020, 4:12 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 38 seconds
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Paideia Today: Season Two, Episode Five, Andreas
Published: May 5, 2020, 3:54 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 seconds
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Paideia Today: Season Two, Episode Four, Beowulf II
Published: April 27, 2020, 6:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 55 seconds
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Paideia Today: Season Two, Episode Three, Beowulf I
Published: April 27, 2020, 6:13 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 53 seconds
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Paideia Today: Season Two, Episode Two, The Dark Ages
Published: April 27, 2020, 6:04 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 49 seconds
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Paideia Today: Saints' Lives, Season Two, Episode One
Published: April 6, 2020, 7:29 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 58 seconds
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Paideia Today: Augustine, Episode Fourteen
Published: March 30, 2020, 3:22 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 19 seconds
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Paideia Today: The Aeneid, Episode Thirteen
Published: March 23, 2020, 3:59 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 12 seconds
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Paideia Today: The Aeneid, Episode Twelve
Published: March 16, 2020, 4:24 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds
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Paideia Today: Oedipus Rex, Episode Eleven
Published: March 9, 2020, 3:57 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 6 seconds
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Paideia Today: Greek Drama, Episode Ten
Published: March 2, 2020, 3:52 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 50 seconds
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Paideia Today: The Odyssey, Episode Nine
Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 6:33 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 55 seconds
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Paideia Today: The Odyssey, Episode Eight
Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 5:45 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 52 seconds
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Paideia Today: The Oyssey, Episode Sevebn
Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 11:28 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 20 seconds
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Paideia Today: The Odyssey, Episode Six
Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 19 seconds
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Paideia Today: Introduction to Epic, Episode Five
Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 5:25 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 1 second
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Paideia Today: The Iliad, Episode Four
Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 45 seconds
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Paideia Today: The Iliad, Episode Three
Published: Jan. 1, 2020, 5:18 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 57 seconds
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Paideia Today: The Iliad, Episode Two
Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 9:17 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 35 seconds
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Paideia Today: Introduction, Episode One
Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 9:17 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 48 seconds
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